> Fascinating - and there was a video game made by Atari called Lunar
> Lander which also tried to put a LEM safely on the surface.
At the U of Alberta in the graphics terminal room in the General
Services Bldg., next door to the I/O room (pick up and drop
off cards and printouts from the MTS Amda
Mike Parr via cctalk writes:
> Hello all.
> Here is a link to something I wrote - brief intro to Algol 68's background, a
> nd how to run it on Windows - with a toy IDE as well.
This triggers a fuzzy memory of an Algol 68 compiler running on
MTS at the U of Alberta, circa 1980. ISTR Chris Thompso
Paul McJones via cctalk writes:
> This sounds like FLACC (Full Language Algol68 Checkout Compiler) by Chris Tho
> mson and Colin Broughton:
Yes, that's the one. On MTS is lived in *FLACC.
--lyndon
[Oops. Forgot to cc the list the first time.]
ben via cctalk writes:
> Do any copies exist and what was the meduium?
Is anyone in touch with or know how to track down Chris Thompson?
It would be worth asking if he preserved the FLACC source code
anywhere? If it still lives, we could take a crack at getting it
running on MTS under simh. Dann
Could we maybe change the subject headers here? Neither Fortran
nor IBM terminal controllers has anything to do with Algol :-)
Andreas Holz via cctalk writes:
> - after trying to reboot the unit will be almost dead. While pressing=20
> the power on button the LEDs on the left upper side of the display will=20
> be lit shortly, but nothing else will happen.
If this is happening with external 18 VDC applied, suspect any/al
> One of the IC's had a hole in it. Looked like it burned out.
> He said it was the first time he's ever seen that!
The Apple II floppy drives were notorious for this. The chip
that drove the stepper motor (I forget the part number) would
literally explode, leaving a quite visible crater in the t
